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en-usPhys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.Why are seabirds abandoning their ancestral nesting grounds in the Gulf of California?Isla Rasa, in the Gulf of California, is renowned for its massive aggregations of nesting seabirds. Over 95 percent of the world populations of Elegant Terns and Heerman's Gulls concentrate unfailingly every year on this tiny island to nest. Ever since the phenomenon was described by L. W. Walker in 1953 the island has been a magnet for tourists, naturalists, filmmakers, and seabird researchers.http://phys.org/news/2015-06-seabirds-abandoning-ancestral-grounds-gulf.html
Ecology Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:00:01 EDTnews354526927Mexico boosts protection of near-extinct porpoiseMexico is greatly expanding a protected area of the Gulf of California and boosting navy patrols in an effort to save the vaquita marina, a small porpoise facing imminent extinction.http://phys.org/news/2015-04-mexico-boosts-near-extinct-porpoise.html
Ecology Fri, 17 Apr 2015 01:58:08 EDTnews348454678Boom or bust in a jelly bloom marketThe earth's climate is changing and extreme weather events are on the rise. Hurricanes are wreaking havoc with more ferocity, summers are getting warmer and winters colder. But what about our oceans? They, too, are warming.http://phys.org/news/2015-04-boom-jelly-bloom.html
Environment Thu, 02 Apr 2015 10:20:02 EDTnews347187671Simple index assesses reef health to guide fisheries management choicesWe know that fishing has significant impacts on our oceans and the animals that live in them. Effects can range from habitat modification caused by bottom trawls, stock declines from overfishing or subtler consequences such as shifts in the structure and functioning of marine food webs.http://phys.org/news/2015-01-simple-index-reef-health-fisheries.html
Environment Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:10:01 EDTnews341226500World's rarest cetacean threatened by illegal gillnetsThe world's rarest cetacean could disappear in less than four years unless immediate action is taken by the Mexican government to protect it from entanglement in gillnets deployed illegally in its Gulf of California refuge, federal officials said Tuesday.http://phys.org/news/2014-12-world-rarest-cetacean-threatened-illegal.html
Ecology Sun, 14 Dec 2014 07:10:03 EDTnews337758071Endangered hammerhead shark found migrating into unprotected watersThe precise movements of a young hammerhead shark have been tracked for the first time and are published in the open access journal Animal Biotelemetry. The study, which ran over a 10-month period, reveals important gaps in current efforts to protect these endangered sharks and suggests key locations that should be protected to help the survival of the species.http://phys.org/news/2014-11-endangered-hammerhead-shark-migrating-unprotected.html
Ecology Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:00:01 EDTnews336154840A new ocean for the desertAs I let the air out of my buoyancy vest and slip under the water of the University of Arizona's Biosphere 2 ocean, I hear a steady hum reminding me of the machinery working behind the scenes to filter the water and keep it a constant temperature of 74 degrees.http://phys.org/news/2014-04-ocean.html
Environment Tue, 01 Apr 2014 07:30:01 EDTnews315555591Mexican Researcher identifies new species of marine algaeThe species historically cited as the most abundant of coral algae that forms rodoliths at the Gulf of California in Mexico is in reality a compound of five different species. This finding was made by Jazmín Hernández Kantun, marine biologist at the Autonomous University of South Baja California (UABCS), resulting in a change of paradigm in the study of the species known as Lithophyllum margaritae.http://phys.org/news/2013-12-mexican-species-marine-algae.html
Environment Tue, 31 Dec 2013 10:10:01 EDTnews307703130Environmental threat turned sustainable business for the Gulf of CaliforniaConsidered a threat to the biodiversity of marine ecosystems of the Gulf of California, the cannonball jellyfish Stomolophus meleagris is intended to be exploited commercially throughout the Mexican Pacific coast where it occurs, thanks to fishing potential discovered by producers of Sonora and researchers at the Biological Research Center of the Northeast (CIBNOR).http://phys.org/news/2013-09-environmental-threat-sustainable-business-gulf.html
Ecology Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:18:10 EDTnews299319480Whales feel the (sun)burnWhales have been shown to increase the pigment in their skin in response to sunshine, just as we get a tan.http://phys.org/news/2013-08-whales-sunburn.html
Plants & Animals Fri, 30 Aug 2013 04:12:02 EDTnews297054696Research shows where trash accumulates in the deep seaSurprisingly large amounts of discarded trash end up in the ocean. Plastic bags, aluminum cans, and fishing debris not only clutter our beaches, but accumulate in open-ocean areas such as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Now, a paper by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) shows that trash is also accumulating in the deep sea, particularly in Monterey Canyon.http://phys.org/news/2013-06-trash-accumulates-deep-sea.html
Environment Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:35:32 EDTnews289665325Biologist gets a squid's eye view (w/ video)(Phys.org) —Pursuing the misunderstood Humboldt squid, Hopkins Marine Station's William Gilly has strapped video cameras and electronic sensors to the animals, exhaustively analyzed their habitats, tracked them with sonar and raised their eggs.http://phys.org/news/2013-03-biologist-squid-eye-view-video.html
Plants & Animals Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:24:03 EDTnews283760632Some microscopic marine organisms could adapt to climate changeCertain tiny, ocean-dwelling creatures called foraminifera can survive in conditions similar to those caused by ocean acidification, say scientists.http://phys.org/news/2013-03-microscopic-marine-climate.html
Environment Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:51:05 EDTnews283675856Mexico, N. Zealand pressed to save marine mammalsA scientific body urged Mexico and New Zealand to take immediate action to prevent the extinction of small marine mammals that are being killed by gillnets set by the fishing industry.http://phys.org/news/2012-07-mexico-zealand-marine-mammals.html
Ecology Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:17:18 EDTnews26076703212% of marine species in tropical Eastern Pacific threatenedTwelve percent of marine species surveyed in the Gulf of California, the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica and the five offshore oceanic islands and archipelagos in the tropical eastern Pacific are threatened with extinction, according to a study by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) and its partners. Main threats to the region's marine flora and fauna include over-fishing, habitat loss and increasing impacts from the El Nino Southern Oscillation.http://phys.org/news/2012-02-marine-species-tropical-eastern-pacific.html
Ecology Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:01:01 EDTnews249300049Why did the Southern Gulf of California rupture so rapidly?The November GSA Today science article, "Why did the Southern Gulf of California rupture so rapidly? -- Oblique divergence across hot, weak lithosphere along a tectonically active margin," is now online.http://phys.org/news/2011-11-southern-gulf-california-rupture-rapidly.html
Earth Sciences Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:17:04 EDTnews239530618Future of West water supply threatened by climate change, says new studyAs the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully depleting all of its reservoir storage by mid-century assuming current management practices continue on course, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.http://phys.org/news/2009-07-future-west-threatened-climate.html
Environment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:09:23 EDTnews167317734